A designer who writes.
Fresh ideas about craft, clarity, creativity, and personal growth, as well as updates on my projects, media recommendations, and links to all the weird and delightful things I find on the internet.
Fifty-two cards. Four suits. Two colors. Three faces, the tens, the aces. Shuffle. Deal. How’s your hand? No good? Call a mulligan. Shuffle. New hand. Better? Worse? With a good shuffle, odds are your deck is in an order that has never existed in the history of cards, let alone those cards. The variables (number … continue
On why artists need to be challenged: Art should be well-subsidized, yes. But the purchase of a completed painting or a sculpture, the commisioning of a mural—or perhaps the publication of a poem or a novel or the production of a play—all these forms of recognition are the rewards of mature work. They are not … continue
I got out to a show last night. (A show is what you call a concert when you go to a lot of concerts.) Lucy Dacus at the Entry. It had been sold out for some time but I bought a ticket from a fellow First Avenue member through the Facebook group. I first saw … continue
Making the simple complicated is commonplace; making the complicated simple, awesomely simple, that’s creativity. ―Charles Mingus
I took myself to D.C. in February, over my birthday. I’d never been.
Mocked up a few alternatives to the unhelpful end truncation of album titles used in iTunes on desktop.
Once you’ve completed discovery work for a content strategy project, the next best step is to create a situation analysis. Here’s how to craft one effectively.
“We’re full-time freelancers who live and travel in a van.”
I am now in charge of Bartertown. Prepare the Thunderdome for these seven pairs of gladiators.
Better a list of CDs I keep in my car, or tapes I keep in my locker. Alas, portable music tech isn’t as hip as it used to be.
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